Top Unions Articles

Goalkeeper Tally Hall is Orlando City’s union representative, and the MLS veteran had plenty to say about the issue of the collective bargaining agreement.
A recent report in The Washington Post indicated that MLS and the players remain far...

There's something eminently straightforward about President Obama's State of the Union proposal to raise taxes on the richest Americans and boost income for the middle class. Robin Hood had the same idea, and the Republican Party has endlessly declared it...

Union membership in the U.S. rose by less than 1 percent in 2014 to 14.6 million, according to figures released Friday by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics.
But as a percentage of the workforce, union representation of workers fell...

A long-awaited examination of how two controversial Los Angeles Department of Water and Power nonprofit trusts spent millions of ratepayer dollars stalled over a concern that auditors were taking too many notes, according to City Hall sources.
Under a...

More than 200 Easton Hospital workers have unionized and reached their first labor contract that includes pay raises, a health care cost freeze and other benefits.
"Our main reason for organizing is we really want to have a say in our patients' care,"...

Now that Gov. Bruce Rauner has made it possible for some state employees not to pay “fair share” union dues, can we assume that those who take advantage will refuse pay increases and other benefits negotiated by the unions to which they do not...

For more than a year, a lawsuit filed by two Costa Mesa councilmen against the police officers union has prevented them from negotiating the labor group's new employment contract.
The conflict of interest was clear: Mayor Steve Mensinger and Mayor Pro...

I am not a member of a union and never have been, but it is hard to watch a billionaire governor suggest that unions are responsible for Illinois’ lack of jobs. Years ago when I worked in the airline industry, only one company at the time didn&...

As he ushered in new policies during his first year in office, Northampton County Executive John Brown made himself the target of the county controller, union officials and a former attorney who claimed to be illegally fired.
Now, he'll have to find a...

Central Florida’s Congressional members – Democrats and Republicans – responded to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech with a little hope and a lot of cynicism that the stuff they like could actually get done....

President Barack Obama outlined an aggressive agenda in his State of the Union address Tuesday, drawing sharpcontrastswith the new Republican majority in Congress and setting the stagefor a tumultuous two years leading into the next presidential election....

Gov. Bruce Rauner’s executive action allowing state employees to opt out of paying union dues doesn’t go as far as he could have. He could also bar the state from having to collect dues for public employee unions by payroll deduction.
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